[OpenBIOS] Re: boy is EFI a kludge!
Gavin Robert Brewer
gavinbr at gavinbr.worldonline.co.uk
Tue Aug 28 17:34:57 CEST 2001
Thierry Deval wrote:
>
> Are you talking about a BIOS ?
> I think you're well beyond the subject...
T. To be perfectly honest, BIOS is really a bit of an extra layer of
stuff that not many people, (not even programmers), want.
Yes I have gone beyond the subject, but what I wish to create is an 'OS
on a chip'. Unfortunately for you guys, you get all my spam, since the
OpenBIOS are the only people who can support me on this venture.
My proposition is to take a whopping great EPROM chip, + a whacking
small OS Microkernel, ( < 64 Kb ), and bundle them together in one
single machine.
Here is an outline of my proposed architectural idea:
+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+
| | | | | |
| Coldfire | | "" | | "" |
| CPU | | "" | | "" | etc ->
| | | | | |
+-----------+ +------------+ +------------+
| | | | | |
---| |------------| |------------| |------
Shared Bus Topology
---| |------------| |------------| |------
| | | | | |
+--- ---+ +---- -----+ +---- -----+
| | | Flash | | 64K |
| I/O PIC | | HDD | | EEPROM |
| | +------------+ +------------+
+--| |--+
| |
The Flash HDD is available from Bimicro Networks at:
http://www.bitmicro.com/products_fc.html
64K EEPROMs can be obtained from motorola, as can PICs DDR RAM etc.
That is about as far as the idea goes at present.
All the best,
Gavin.
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